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I just finished Violet; and wow - this has to have been the greatest experience I've ever yielded from a Pokemon game, and I've been playing since I was a kid during the RS era. The amount of team options is phenomenal, and while the graphics might be worse than other Switch titles, they by far are the best among the Pokemon franchise in isolation. I found the story actually rather endearing, and with all of the DLC taken into consideration, I generally feel that the postgame content is the most elaborate and substantial that it's ever been. I love the new quality of life changes which make perfecting team members no longer an arduous, "full-time job" scale task, and while the dex exclusions are regrettable, HOME is the most intuitive setup for Pokemon storage that's ever been around. You couldn't even transfer more than 1 Pokemon at a time in multiple generations after 3 iirc.
The in-game battles are easy but they really always have been. I like Pokemon due to the collectability aspect of it, and the postgame experience of maintaining and expanding a collection, and S&V delivers on that front phenomenally. I actually think the games are a welcome addition granted the disappointment that was gen 8 in its entirety. We've reached peak Pokemon and the lion's share of this board is missing out, I used to look at S&V's problems from afar while refraining from getting and playing it, but I was baffled at how surprisingly good it sincerely was.
